Blind Guyanese plays leadership role among disabled in Ontario

Blind and without any education till he was 18 years old, Raj Tribhuwan today plays a leadership role in a community of persons with disabilities in Ontario, Canada. He has come a long way from his roots at Enmore, East Coast Demerara.

Tribhuwan celebrated his 50th birthday in 2009 with the launch of the Raj Tribhuwan Foundation, a non-profit organization he set up to contribute to the lives of visually impaired people in Guyana.

“I visited Guyana in 1995 and 1998 at Christmas time. And I was heart broken